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Volume 1 Issue 6 - Nov 2008 Web: www.lankaemb-riyadh.org Email: [email protected] Tel: +966-1-460-6906/460-8689 / 460-8232/460-8235 Fax: +966-1-460-0846 1947 by the then Prime Minister Mr D. S. His son Ashley who attended St Peters Grand Old Homes fromp3 SL President in New York Senanayake. College was later Professor of English The Power Of Giving at the University of Peradeniya. exercise in memory recall, and also Adjoining the hospital was a roadway to jog the memories of readers. The leading to the Boys Industrial School Maya Avenue was previously called descriptions are of people and homes providing vocational education to young Link Road. It linked Havelock Road to along Havelock Road and beyond people the new road to Nugegoda. At its around sixty years ago. Havelock intersection with Havelock Road was Road begins at the Bullers Road On the opposite side next door to the famous Oasis Nurseries owned by intersection or what is popularly Shalimar, at No 500, a battleaxe block John Cosmas, a Greek who was known as the Thunmulla Junction, stood the home of Alfred West Toussaint, Colombo’s leading horticulturist. He had and ends at the Pamankade Bridge a former Engine Driver of the Railway a well-stocked nursery standing on on the road to Kohuwala. Close to its whose legs were severed below the knee several acres of land, and was the southern end, at the intersection of after accidentally slipping off the engine source of the plants that beautified the Havelock Road with Maya Avenue, on to the railway track. His father Alfred gardens around homes of Colombo at was a popular Shell Service Station West Toussaint (Snr) was one of the first the time. opposite to which there was the City Burghers in Ceylon to be appointed as a Hospital for Animals which opened in Railway Engine Driver. Toussaint worked Most houses, in those halcyon times, ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: for several years in an administrative would have a resident gardener or capacity in the railway office at McCallum “thota karaya” as he was called. The What is the power of an individual Business Road. Oasis Nurseries sold packets of Zinnia, when that person happens to be a Opportunities Balsam, Dahlia, and Chrysanthemum He used to travel to work each day by seeds, which were all perennial John D. Rockefeller or a Bill Gates? If Desiccated Coconut (High Fat), rickshaw, pulled by his faithful rickshaw favorites with the housewives of history is a guide, the answer is, quite Toasted Desiccated Coconut a lot. I'm speaking not only about the puller Muttiah. Each morning Muttiah Colombo together with Canna Tubers, President Mahinda Rajapaksa being received by a group of Sri Lankan children when he Mr. Saman Gunasekara power to reshape an industry like oil or Beligala Coconut Products (Pvt) Ltd would climb up the steps of the house, lift Rose Grafts, and a beautiful range of arrived in New York to attend the meeting of the UN General Assembly. Foreign Minister Alfred from his wheelchair, carry him and Orchids, all very popular with garden personal computers but also about the Rohitha Bogollagama is seen on the extreme left. No.125, George R De Silva Mawatha ability to improve the world through ,Colombo 13,Sri Lanka place him on the rickshaw. He would then conscious Colombo ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: philanthropy. Rockefeller proved that Tel:+94 11 2435141 Fax: +94 11 2446310 pull the rickshaw all the way to McCallum giving away money is much more than SLEA Host Female inmates in Dammam Email: [email protected] Road in the city; spend his time around charity. It can be transformative. And if The Sri Lankan Expatriates Association in the Eastern Province brought meaning to Web: http://www.coconut-srilanka.com the office until his master was ready to go today's billionaires were to pool their this years Ramadan by organizing an Ifthar for the Sri Lankan inmates at the Ladies back home after work. Muttiah and his Paper Based Products Deportation Camp in Dammam on Sep 10, 2008. wife were quartered in the garage of the resources, they could outflank the Mrs. Dilani Wijethunge world's governments in ending poverty Richard Trading Company Pvt Ltd Toussaint home, and the couple worked and pandemic disease. The collective event successfully provided the inmates with a typical Sri Lankan style No. 64, Perakumba St. Kurunegala, Sri exclusively for the Toussaints. The meal made possible by the active membership of the Association. The ladies Toussaint home was one of a duplex, the Lanka expressed their gracious thanks to the SLEA. Mr Charley Talaratna, the dedicated Tel:+94 37 5670385 Fax: +94 37 4690710 other occupied by the Rowalnds. Alfred’s More than a century ago, Rockefeller decided to put his vast fortune to public Chairman of the SLEA’s Labor and Welfare Committee was influential in obtaining Email: [email protected] wife Alice (nee Drieberg) aged over 90 use, offering to endow a federal access to the camp in order to host the event. Web: http://www.richard100.com years, was living alone in this house in institution to fight disease, poverty and 1997, her son Maurice having migrated to To be continued in the December issue ignorance. Hotheads attacked him, Cordial, Jams, Condiments, Canada several decades earlier. claiming that he was just trying to buy Sauces, Chutney Mr. M.Rajkumar, Managing Director EDITORIAL BOARD a good name, and Congress At number 502 stood the rambling old Araliya Exporter (Pvt) Ltd Honorary Members demurred. So, instead, in 1913, Caroline House in which Mrs Caroline de No.280/4-280/5, Negombo Road Wattala, A Sabarullah Khan Rockefeller set up the Rockefeller Silva lived for many years in the house Sri Lanka W A Sarath Kumara Foundation with two initial gifts totaling built by her husband. The house was Yasantha de Silva Tel:+94 11 2942126 Fax: +94 11 2942126 $100 million. No institution did more in Email: [email protected] demolished in 1955. Mrs de Silva owned M C Rasooldeen J.P the 20th century to further the cause of Website: http://www.araliyagroup.com the adjoining row of houses in which lived Fazli Sameer international development. It led the the Fryer and Reimers families for several [email protected] way in the eradication of hookworm in Selective Designs years. These houses have also been The November issue of Insight is the U.S. South, helping pave the way Mr. N.W.Dissanayaka, Managing Director demolished. On the opposite side was sponsored by Jayantha D Nandaraj Wooden Toys, Educational toys for the region's economic ‘Beth-Holme’ the home of B. J. Pompeus, No.303/2, Sri Wijaya Mawatha Bokundara development. It supported the Nobel- Piliyandala and earlier R. A. Honter. In the adjoining Printed at Al Raja Press, Riyadh prizewinning work that created the Tel:+94 11 2708248 Fax: +94 11 2708393 garden were several homes in one of +966-1-453-8811 (Tel), 470-1167 (Fax) yellow-fever vaccine. It helped Brazil Email: [email protected] which lived V. W. Halpe, a teacher at the Mobile: 050-323-1721 eliminate a malaria-transmitting strain Web: http://www.Selectivedesigns.biz Royal Primary School for several years. PAGE 4 of mosquito. See page 2 Insight – Nov 2008 Insight – Nov 2008 Next-door was the home of Dr Thomasz Power of Giving – from pg 1 New Premises for SLIS Jeddah Cricket in Sri Lanka Grand Old Homes Of whose daughter was a well-known And perhaps most stunningly, it funded Ten years after the British subdued the sporting figure of the time. A fine the Asian Green Revolution, the Kingdom of Kandy (1815), the Colombo specimen of the Traveller’s Palm- transformative agricultural success that cinnamon trade began floundering. Changes to Colombo’s landscape in Ravenela Madagascaris grew on its enabled India and other countries to The British had messed up a well- recent years have been so rapid and front lawn. Next door, No 498 Havelock escape endless cycles of famine and controlled industry. By 1840, comprehensive that anyone visiting the Road was “Kamala”, the home of Dr poverty. Cinnamon as a crop was virtually city after a period of time will hardly Nair named after his daughter. For a extinct with prices down. Only the recognize parts of the landscape where few years it was tenanted by B. J. Now Bill and Melinda Gates, backed by scattered village plots were left. its grand old homes of yester years Lalyett, a Director of Darley Butler and more than $30 billion of their own funds have virtually faded out of sight. Where Company Ltd. The house was later and an additional $31 billion of Warren In 1825, the British introduced coffee beautiful houses and gardens once purchased by the then Director of Buffett's, can do the same. Like the in Kandy, at elevations from 1600 ft stood gladdening the eye of passers Education H. S. Perera who named it Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates above sea level to about 2000 ft. The by, there now stands a compacted “Shalimar”. Mr Perera died not long after Foundation rightly looks to technology first plantations were ‘Gangaroa’ (now structure enclosed by high walls. The he moved in to the house. His British for the breakthroughs that can end Gannoruwa) in Kandy and ‘Sinnapitiya’ grand old garden city that Colombo, wife continued to live in the house till extreme poverty on a global basis. Its (now Sinhapitiya) in Gampola. Coffee once was, up until the nineteen sixties, she passed away some years ago. In original focus has been on health was also planted in the and which enraptured visitors over the the house opposite lived Horace van technologies, but now the foundation is Knuckles/Rangala/Galaha areas.

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